Jeremiah 8:17

New Living Translation

I will send these enemy troops among you like poisonous snakes you cannot charm. They will bite you, and you will die. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Cross References

Psalm 58:6

Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O Lord!

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If a snake bites before you charm it, what’s the use of being a snake charmer?

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken— that the king who attacked you is dead. For from that snake a more poisonous snake will be born, a fiery serpent to destroy you!

Amos 5:19

In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion— only to meet a bear. Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house— and he’s bitten by a snake.

Amos 9:3

Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will search them out and capture them. Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the sea serpent after them to bite them.

Numbers 21:6

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died.

Deuteronomy 32:24

I will weaken them with famine, burning fever, and deadly disease. I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.

Revelation 9:19

Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.